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To: WXRGina; Salvation; xone
Jesus is God. Humans are not angels. Nor are angels Jesus.

Genesis does not identify them as angels but as men.

Looking up, he saw three men standing near him.
Gen 18:2

Moving further on to Gen 18:9-12, the 3 men inquire about Sarah, Abraham's wife. One of them goes so far as to say he will return next year when Sarah will have a son. Meanwhile, Sarah has been listening and begins to laugh (because she is advanced in years). In Gen 18:13, it reads: "But the LORD said to Abraham:" If you move forward to Gen. 19:24 the text says that the LORD rains down fire and brimstone from the LORD in heaven. This seems to support the Trinity or at the very least a multiplicity in the Godhead.

49 posted on 01/25/2015 4:08:45 PM PST by NYer (Without justice - what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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To: NYer
Actually, one was ID'ed as the Lord at the beginning. Gen 18:1 And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;.

Gen 16 has a better account of the angel of the Lord.

50 posted on 01/25/2015 4:22:20 PM PST by xone
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The revelation of God to our minds and spirits (if we have His Spirit in us, that is) lets us know they were angels, not ordinary men. Angels apparently have an appearance similar to “men” in some cases. But, continue to go on a pointless rabbit trail if you like. In the end, all knowledge will be revealed, and we will see that this is a meaningless discussion to our purposes here and now. I shouldn’t have made my first one-word comment of “No” on a catholic thread anyway. That was my pointless mistake.


52 posted on 01/25/2015 4:24:04 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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